Älgarna-Härnösand IF is a
Swedish
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football team from
Härnösand
Härnösand () is a locality and the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 17,556 inhabitants in 2010. It is called "the gate to the High Coast" because of the world heritage landscape just a few miles north of Hà ...
currently playing in
Division 2 Norrland. The club is affiliated to the
Ångermanlands Fotbollförbund
The Ångermanlands Fotbollförbund ''(Ångermanland Football Association)'' is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association. It administers lower tier football in the historic province of Ångermanland.
It was establi ...
. The club was originally called IF Älgarna before changing name during the annual meeting on 29 March 2020.
History
In the early years, the club also had a
bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
section. the club dominated bandy in Västernorrland in the 1920s and 1930s, winning the district championship in this sport in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, and then again in 1946.
[Eric Sköld (ed.): Boken om bandy, Uppsala: Bygd och Folk Förlag (1948), pp. 469-471 (in Swedish)]
The club played at their highest level in Division II, which was then the second tier of Swedish football, in seasons 1953/1954-1954/1955, 1959 and 1960. In 1941 and again in 1952 the club lost the final of the Norrland championship.
Season to season
Attendances
In recent seasons the club have had the following average attendances:
Staff and board members
* President: Christer Solgevik
* Vice President: Håkan Lönnefors
* Treasurer : Bo Westin
References
External links
Official website
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Association football clubs established in 1919
Bandy clubs established in 1919
Football clubs in Västernorrland County
Defunct bandy clubs in Sweden
Sport in Härnösand
1919 establishments in Sweden